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Virginia is one step closer to removing the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. According to the New York Times, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court ruling that paved the way for the 12-ton statue’s removal in the capital city. The decision was explained in two opinions Thursday, more than a year after Gov. Ralph […]
The controversial statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia was removed Saturday, roughly four years after the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally that ended in the death of a counter-protester and brought national attention to the statue. The removal of the statue took about a day, as a crew prepared its […]
A New Jersey city has paid tribute to George Floyd by erecting a 700-pound statue in his image. According to CBS News, the bronze structure was unveiled Wednesday outside Newark’s city hall, where it will remain on display for at least a year. The piece, which shows Floyd sitting on a bench, was commissioned by actor/director Leon Pinkney and created by […]
A man who was reported missing hours earlier was found dead Saturday inside the leg of a dinosaur statue in a town near Barcelona, Spain, The Guardian reports. A father and son alerted authorities when they noticed something inside the papier-mâché stegosaurus in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Officers called upon local firefighters to cut the dinosaur’s leg in an […]
Kim Kardashian has been accused of purchasing an ancient Roman statue that was illegally exported from Italy. However, the reality TV star insists she has no knowledge of the transaction. According to documents filed in California court last Friday, the piece in question is a limestone sculpture that dates back to the 1st or 2nd century AD. CNN reports federal authorities seized […]
In today’s monolith round-up, a trio of somewhat mysterious new structures have been spotted over the past few days on Britain‘s Isle of Wight, San Luis Obispo, California, and near the Joshua Tree National Park, representing the latest development(s) in a stunt that hopefully has some sort of payoff at some point. While it would be nice […]
A bronze statue in honor of Melania Trump was unveiled in Slovenia this week, about two months after arsonists destroyed the original wooden version. According to CNN, Berlin-based American artist Brad Downey presented the metal statue Tuesday near the first lady’s hometown of Sevnica. Downey told the outlet he decided to replace the first statue—created by local chainsaw artisan […]
A petition posted this past weekend pushing to get a Confederate statue replaced with a Chadwick Boseman memorial has generated more than 15,000 signatures. The proposed statue swap would occur in Anderson, South Carolina, the hometown of Boseman. The star of Black Panther, Marshall, and many other films passed away on Friday due to colon cancer. He was […]
Authorities in Virginia have issued an arrest warrant for Louise Lucas, a Black state senator who has been charged with damaging a Confederate statue in Portsmouth last month. According to the Washington Post, Lucas is among the local leaders charged in the June incident, which occurred during the nationwide protests against police brutality and racial […]
An Austrian tourist has issued a heartfelt apology for breaking a few toes off of an early 19th century statue he posed with for a photo with while visiting a museum in northern Italy last week, the New York Times reports. The 200-year-old statute is of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sister Pauline. It’s housed in the Gypsotheca Antonio Canova museum, which is named after Italian […]
